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THE FEDERALIST(r) CHRONICLE The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 13 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-07 Wednesday Chronicle *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp *To sponsor The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/sponsor.asp *To retrieve today's Chronicle as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Upright Editorial Exegesis Dezinformatsia Sociocrats Village Idiots Short Cuts ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order.... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." --Thomas Jefferson ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "Our religion must not alone be the concern of the emotions, but must be woven into the warp and woof of our every-day life." --Booker T. Washington ++ "Justice without strength is powerless, strength without justice is tyrannical.... Therefore, unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just." --Blaise Pascal ++ "Christians ought to rise together in defense of spiritual and moral values against the pressure of materialism and moral permissiveness." --Pope John Paul II ++ "We can do no great things; only small things with great love." --Mother Teresa ++ "The morality and values faith implies are deeply embedded in our national character. Our country embraces those principles by design, and we abandon them at our peril." --Ronald Reagan ++ "We never know how high we are/ Till we are called to rise/ And then, if we are true to plan/ Our statures touch the skies." --Emily Dickinson ++ "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in times of prosperity would have lain dormant." --Horace ++ "There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect." --Woodrow Wilson ++ "You can't say civilization don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way." --Will Rogers ++ "Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief efforts to trying to prove that the other is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed and are right." --H.L. Mencken ++ "There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep." --Ralph Waldo Emerson ++ "Great men can't be ruled." --Ayn Rand ++ "The people's good is the highest law." --Cicero ++ "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." --Barry Goldwater ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT "It is possible today for American students to pass through elementary school and high school, and obtain a university degree without gaining any appreciation for the men who founded their country." --Paul Craig Roberts ++ "The sole purpose of our Constitution is to define the limited role of government in order to guarantee individual rights." --Tom DeWeese ++ "This is the cardinal republican [small 'r'] virtue: People helping people. And while this has always been important, never has it been more important than in the wake of September 11. We must pull together as a nation -- neighbors learning how to help neighbors. And Christians ought to be in the vanguard." --Charles Colson {} "The budget Mr. Bush proposed ... deserves kudos for clarity of purpose. It is a serious budget for a serious war -- a just war that must be fought, won and paid for." --Austin Bay {} "Notwithstanding the isolated pockets of international hyper-ventilation, we do not treat the detainees in any manner other than a manner that is humane." --Donald Rumsfeld {} "[W]e...need to remember that the real enemy is a tactic -- terrorism. As the recent bombing in Israel proves again, terrorists want to hurl their victims into confusion and blind fear." --Tony Snow {} "The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die." --Charley Reese {} "...[C]onservatives are vulnerable to being destroyed by unethical behavior because we emphasize personal moral responsibility. A conservative with significant moral failings is shocking because individual responsibility is the point of most everything we fight for." --Rabbi Daniel Lapin ++ "For some reason, we got the mentality along the way that conservatism was about leaders -- and it never was. It was always about the grass roots, about people who had decided to move for themselves and then created the leaders who corresponded to their needs." --Alan Keyes {} "Stripped of its halo, campaign finance reform is the Washington elites' way of enhancing their power: the media elites, by enlarging their importance in politics; the incumbent pols, by strengthening their incumbency." --R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ++ "The self-financed fat cat would have a clear advantage over the local citizen who works hard to build support for a campaign for elected office." --Rep. J.C. Watts {} "According to the media elites' rulebook, when liberals rant it's called free speech; when conservatives rant it's called incitement to terrorism." --Bernard Goldberg {} "[T]he choice for the judge who believes the death penalty to be immoral is resignation, rather than simply ignoring duly enacted constitutional laws and sabotaging the death penalty." --Justice Antonin Scalia {} "It's...not fair that the tax dollars of citizens and legal immigrants must subsidize -- and hence reward -- the college tuition of students who entered the country illegally." --Debra Saunders {} "The left doesn't love success; it loves victimhood. You can never do enough...for victims." --Bill Murchison {} "Does the ACLU ever complain when the teachings of Islam are glorified in public schools?" --David Limbaugh {} "[I]nstead of creating...sitcoms with the warmth and spirit of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' or dramas as clever as 'The Rockford Files' -- shows still popular decades later -- cable instead has chosen to flush positive values down the commode." --Brent Bozell {} "Imagine Ronald Reagan reading a poll to tell him what to think." --Peggy Noonan ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Not that Mr. Bush doesn't have skeptics (of the faith-based initiative) on his own team. Whereas the left objects to funding anything that isn't a federal bureaucracy, many on the right worry that federal funding will transform religious charities INTO bureaucracies -- and there is more than enough precedent with, say, Catholic Charities and Lutheran Services in America, to make this a legitimate concern." --Wall Street Journal And one more for the air... "A 59-year-old executive on a Delta Air Lines flight to Salt Lake City was charged with interfering with a flight crew after he allegedly stood up and went to the lavatory within 30 minutes of landing, despite a rule adopted for the Olympics that limits such movements by passengers. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000 if convicted of the charge, according to authorities. [A] flight attendant who saw him leaving the restroom told him to return to his seat immediately and felt [the passenger], who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, 'was attempting to intimidate her' when he stood and stared at her. The [arrest] affidavit said he returned to his seat after 'approximately a minute' and, according to a sky marshal on the plane, gave a 'thumbs up,' which the agent viewed as a hand signal to another passenger. After the incident, sky marshals took control of the cabin and ordered passengers to put their hands on their heads for the rest of the flight." --Wall Street Journal ______----********O********----______ WORTH REPEATING "Most late-term abortions are performed in the womb by killing the fetus with a saline solution, injecting potassium chloride into the heart or by dismembering it. But Christ Hospital [Oak Lawn, IL] uses a method called induced-labor abortion, in which labor is induced weeks before a child is viable outside the womb. Those who are born alive are simply left to die. Despite all the publicity, it is still practiced, [former Christ Hospital nurse Jill Stanek says]. 'I knew of at least two deliveries in 2001 who were healthy,' she says. 'One little girl aborted last spring was 23 weeks [past conception]. She weighed a pound. She began breathing on her own, but she was never given any medical attention. She lived for 2 1/2 hours in the labor and delivery department after never having been seen by any neonatal doctors.' Mrs. Stanek first protested the hospital's policy in May 1999 after she discovered a boy weighing half a pound lying on a counter in a utility room. The infant had been aborted in the 21st week of pregnancy because he had Down syndrome. The nurse discovered that no one else wanted to touch the child; the parents did not want to hold him and the rest of the hospital staff had no time. As she held him, the 10-inch-long boy gasped for breath for another 45 minutes until his underdeveloped lungs expired. ... Today, some infants who survive abortion at Christ Hospital are taken to a 'comfort room.' 'It has pretty wallpaper, and a rocking chair in a corner to rock these babies to death,' Mrs. Stanek says." --Washington Times You may contact Larry Roy, MD, Pediatric Program Director for Christ Medical Center at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______----********O********----______ DEZINFORMATSIA This week's "Leftmedia Busters" Award: "Unfortunately, the media elite in our society have, for the most part, become so insular and out of touch with their audience that they believe that as long as they have the approval of their fellow elites, the rest of us don't matter. It is simply assumed that any worthwhile person must share their ideology." --Sterling Rome, assistant to CBS's ur-talkinghead Walter Cronkite {} A "Really Big Spike" Award: National Public Radio reportedly succumbed to pressure from the Islamic group American Arab Action Network in 1998, blacklisting terrorism expert Steven Emerson, who was at that time warning that Muslim extremists were a real danger to the U.S. Emerson says NPR "has allowed radical Muslim 'leaders' to have their say while ignoring the same leaders' statements and activities in support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad." **And if taxpayer-financed NPR had treated Emerson's warnings seriously, do you suppose the chances of averting 9-11 would have been better? {} This week's "Clintonista Media Sycophant" Award: "Now, there are plenty of people who have argued with it, but I think the fact that someone has told a lie, even a big lie or maybe several big lies over a lifetime, does not mean that they're an inherently dishonest person. But, you know, this may mark me as one of those people -- I believe in redemption and that Bill Clinton -- is he an honest person? I think he is an honest person. Did he lie? Yes, he lied, and on those occasions he was dishonest. ...But I don't have any argument with anyone who wants to say, 'Well, Dan, I think you've made a mistake.' My answer to that is, 'Man, I've made a lot of mistakes over my lifetime'." --Dan Rather **Oh, really? {} This week's "Bryant Gumball" Award: "But we have to also be careful and draw a line not to let our patriotism get in the way of the games in general." --Matt Lauer on why American patriotism is detrimental to the Olympic games ______----********O********----______ SOCIOCRATS "At a time when our entire country is banding together and facing down individualism, the Patriots set a wonderful example, showing us all what is possible when we work together, believe in each other, and sacrifice for the greater good." --Demo Sen. Ted Kennedy, praising the New England Patriots footballers for winning the Super Bowl by "facing down individualism." **Funny, we noticed all those guys wore "uniforms" but we thought sure they all had different names and numbers on their backs! {} "I do think that the ads that -- I gather -- the RNC, Republican National Committee, and other, independent groups have been running against Tom, particularly in his home state of South Dakota, are really over the edge." --Joseph LIEberman **Keep on gathering, Joe {} This week's "Las Clintonista Leftovers" Award: "The only problem I have [with being a U.S. Senator] is there's simply no down time. For me. For friends. To maybe have a day with the girls to just laugh or treat myself to a gossipy lunch or go to a spa with them for an afternoon." --Sen. Ms. Hillary Rodham-Clinton ______----********O********----______ VILLAGE IDIOTS This week's "Ignarus Perpetuus" Award: "Under God." --Words jarringly missing from the partially quoted Pledge of Allegiance reprinted on Dr Pepper's "patriot cans" of soda. {} This week's "Hyper-Hypocrisy" Award: "The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life." --Ted Turner at Brown University **Assuming, as Ted must, that then material world is all that could constitute "a better life." ++ Asked moments later if he would allow public access to his vast landholdings in Montana, Turner replied: "Can I live in your home with you? We believe in private property in this country." **No room for the impoverished masses on Ted's playground! {} This week's "Leftpinkie" Award: "The right wing benefited so much from September 11 that, if I were still a conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd done it." --Norman Mailer ++ This week's "Village Victimitis" Award: "Why pick on us? There's lots of other illegals in the country." --Kahlil E. Jahshan, Vice President of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, on plans to deport from the U.S. illegal aliens of Middle Eastern origin. **Could be that 9-11 thing.... ++ From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File: The terrorist attacks of 9-11 are now official subjects for university instruction! A sampling: "Terrorism and Sexuality" at California State University at Hayward describes wars as a form of "eroticism" for those "patriarchs" who fight them. Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, formerly active with domestic terror groups Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground, says, "I have no obligation to be loyal to any government that I don't feel is just -- free speech is free speech." The course description for UCLA's "Terrorism and the Politics of Knowledge" says the class reviews the U.S. "record of imperialistic adventurism." ______----********O********----______ SHORT CUTS "Today's question. What is the difference between Al Qaeda and Congress? Today's answer: Al Qaeda plans attacks while Congress plans a tax." --Lyn Nofziger {} "Alas 'tis true -- campaign finance reform is again in danger of being passed in Congress where our elected representatives admit that they cannot be trusted with the money they raise. So weak is their probity that they fear financial supporters will turn them into willing tools if they accept 'soft money,' and possibly even 'hard money.' What they might do with counterfeit money is apparently too diabolical to mention." --R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. {} "If I wanted reporters with cosmetic enhancements, I would watch Sam Donaldson." --Mark Russell {} "Left Without A Cent: A liberal's like to be lax/ When recommending a tax./ With a glut in his heart/ And his brain low a quart,/ He will give you the shirts off our backs!" --F.R. Duplantier {} "Symbolism you have to explain is too much symbolism." --John Allen in the comic strip "Nest Heads" {} "When the Titanic was in its death throes, with the propellers sticking straight up into the air, there was a stock analyst clinging to a railing, asking people around him where he could buy a ticket for the return trip." --Dave Barry {} "We've got a ministry in waiting for the protection of virtue and prevention of vice in America, and it's alive, well, and already practicing a venomous hatred for all that displeases. The political correctness running amok in America...." --Wesley Pruden Jay Leno.... The Olympics have started! There were 77 countries represented in the Parade of Nations, including India. There was one person on the Indian team, one person, and India has a billion people! Think of the pressure that guy must be under! Mexico brought four competitors to the games. Good luck getting them to go home after the games. There was one embarrassing moment during the ceremony when the Germans came walking in. They kept on walking and they now occupy Idaho and Montana. There were over 1,000 security guards at the ceremony -- and that was just to keep Tonya Harding out! There are more troops in Salt Lake City than there are in Afghanistan. This is true. Can you believe that? Hey, why do we have to compete? We've got the men there, let's just take all the medals! Over a quarter million condoms will be handed out at the Olympics. I don't want to know what event that's for! David Letterman.... Top Taliban Complaints About Camp X-Ray: "Three meals a day and none of them are goat" " 'Death to America' T-shirts only come in cotton/poly blend" "Can't get used to this whole warm bed, cooked food, running water thing" "Lying American propaganda makes it seem like Taliban is losing" "Television only gets one channel and it's CBS" "Achmed totally stole my skit idea for camp talent show" "Haven't gotten one X-ray" "Just because you're a bearded nut in Cuba everyone assumes you know Fidel" "Dude in next cell keeps bragging he used to be head of Enron" Argus Hamilton.... President Bush opened the Winter Olympics in Utah Friday night. Everyone was frisked as they entered a stadium ringed with troops and patrolled overhead by F-16 fighters. The president wanted to show the world that the terrorists didn't win. .... Hare Krishna congregations across the United States announced Thursday they will be forced to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy this coming week. How do you like that? At last, the airport security measures are starting to show some results. .... CIA Director George Tenet testified before the U.S. Senate about the threat of terrorism. He warned that al Qaeda is planning attacks on U.S. landmarks, buildings, and airports. Some guys are always the last to get the word. .... Arthur Andersen CEO Joe Beradino said he didn't see Enron's collapse coming. He saw the books, looked at the off-balance-sheet debt and thought all was well. With that track record, it's just a matter of time before he goes from CEO to CIA. .... Senator Byrd of West Virginia broke down in the Senate Friday describing how poor he was as a child. Nevertheless, he descends from English nobility. It's a well-known fact that Robert Byrd is the direct descendant of the Duke of Hazzard. .... Hillary Clinton will host a big money fund-raiser for Iowa's governor. It set off alarm bells at the White House. Just the mention of Clinton, big money, and Iowa in the same sentence gives Republicans an Axis of Evil they can all agree upon. .... Virginia moved Friday to require the Ten Commandments to be posted in all classrooms. Its constitutionality sparked debate in the Senate. Hillary Clinton is not opposed to the Ten Commandments, but she's not exactly married to the idea, either. (**) Denotes Editor's Comment -- PUBLIUS -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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